Cedric's guards quickly 'jumped' down from Mu's wall of air, just as the cieling above dissolved, but it didn't save them from Solf/Patel's tendrils, which crushed/stabbed them with pieces of masonry. As for Cedric himself, he had flown down from the dissolving cieling, and was now blasting from his shotgun above Patel, carefully avoiding Mu so as not to incite his ire. At the same time, several sphere-shaped Attack Drones, which had diverted all their power to shields, began trying to ram Patel's arms, so as to further disrupt her efforts; the idea was that the shielded drones would mess with the aetheric 'arms' used by the unknown Meta.

"Blow up the back walls!" said the 20-year old. "Transfer all data from the Computer Core to the backups in other HQs, then blow it up!"